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Oscilloscope ‘Terribly Happy’ over Foreign Import

Oscilloscope announced the pick up of Henrik Ruben Ganz’s Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) for a release in theaters and on disc this autumn.

Eric Lavallée

Published on July 28, 2009

Know mostly as a U.S Indie and Documentary film label, Oscilloscope Laboratories are taking a chance of a popular title from Denmark. Oscilloscope announced the pick up of Henrik Ruben Ganz’s Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) for a release in theaters and on disc this autumn.

Winner of several local and international awards (it won several Bodils (Denmark’s equivalent to the Oscar) the top prize at the Karlovy Vary and Chicago Int’s Silver Hugo award for Best Director.

The film revolves around Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren), a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople.

The trailer reminds me of Iceland’s Jar City. I was wondering if any of our readers might have seen this – what are your thoughts?

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).